Robert McIntosh, who won election as Texas A&M University’s student body president only to be stripped of victory for a campaign finance violation, says he’s fighting that result out of principle.

“The reason I ran for student body president, and won, is the same reason I’m fighting the theft of this election now: to serve and defend the interests and the rights of all Aggies,” McIntosh said in a prepared …

A gay student at Texas A&M University has taken the high road in responding to former Gov. Rick Perry’s criticism of his election as student body president. The student, Bobby Brooks, didn’t even mention the …

When President Donald Trump issued his first executive order banning certain foreign travelers, the Faculty Council at the University of Texas responded with a resolution of opposition. On Monday, the council adopted a resolution in support of students who are in the country illegally, including those enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Established by former President Barack Obama, the DACA program gives young people temporary protection from deportation …

The University of Texas has responded to the prospect of a new legal assault on its use of affirmative action in admissions by defending the legality and purpose of its program.

As the Statesman reported Thursday, the same UT alumnus who took a lawsuit against UT to the U.S. Supreme Court twice, ultimately losing, is recruiting students who were denied admission to the Austin flagship.

Colette Pierce Burnette, the president and CEO of Huston-Tillotson University, knows full well that the vast majority of black voters went with Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. That there is a photo-op aspect to any …

When it comes to higher education, public universities and community colleges tend to draw most of the attention. No surprise there: More than 90 percent of college students in Texas, for example, attend public institutions.

Paul Foster, chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents, apparently wasn’t satisfied with his explanation — and his apology — regarding the question of African Americans on that board during a state …

Two years ago, when Gov. Greg Abbott named three people to the University of Texas System Board of Regents, state Sen. Royce West expressed concern that none was African American but nevertheless voted for all …